SUMMER EXTRA - READING

If you can read for 20 minutes each day over the summer, that will go a long way to improving reading comprehension and reading speed -- things you will need for almost every aspect of the test.

 

I have attached:

 1. A video about improving reading comprehension if you need to improve skills.

 2. Some graphic organizers that you can fill out as you read to help improve your understanding and get you learning about thinking and reading comprehension.

 3. Some reading passages with answers for practice.

 

Although it doesn't matter what you read as long as you are reading, here are some suggestions if you're looking to get started.

 

FICTION

1. Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie

2. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Mark Hadden

3. Reincarnation Blues, Michael Poore

4. The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros

5. The Pearl, John Steinbeck

6. Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery

7. Little House on the Prairie Series, Laura Ingalls Wilder

8. To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee

9. Life of Pi, Yann Martel

10. The Paris Apartmen, Lucy Foley

 

NONFICTION

 1. The Autobiography of Malcom X, Malcom X

 2. Night, Elie Wiesel

 3. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot

 4. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou

 5. Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

 6. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood, Trevor Noah

 7. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Mary Roach

 8. Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer

 9. The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank

 10. I am Malala, Malala Yousafzai